Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Outside of portage (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:03:15
Message-Id: 4F6CBC43.7040701@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: Outside of portage (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers) by Barry Schwartz
1 Barry Schwartz wrote:
2 > Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis:
3 >> I hope lilo stays around forever. It is a sensible choice.
4 >
5 > Lilo is good; it checks your work for you. The bootloader isn’t really
6 > an operating system feature, in my view, because if you have more than
7 > one OS they are all going to use the same bootloader (not counting
8 > chaining).
9 >
10 >
11
12
13 This is odd, I switched away from lilo when I was dual booting two Linux
14 OS's. The things you are talking about being good are the reasons I
15 switched. lol
16
17 I been using grub, legacy, for a long time and I have no complaints
18 about it. For me, it works better than lilo ever did. The new grub may
19 change things tho. May being the key word.
20
21 Dale
22
23 :-) :-)
24
25 --
26 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
27 how you interpreted my words!
28
29 Miss the compile output? Hint:
30 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"